Example sentences of "[noun] ago it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 2 | Years ago it housed all the village activities including lantern slides , then moving pictures when they came into being . |
| 3 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 4 | When he first became the candidate more than two years ago it caused considerable controversy . |
| 5 | Built just a few years ago it looks battle-scarred by usage and needs a good smartening up . |
| 6 | At all events , when the innovative literary theory derived from structuralism began to arrive about twenty years ago it found actual or potential fissures in the form of life and it sought to enlarge and penetrate them . |
| 7 | When the first draft of Li 's report was presented a fortnight ago it incorporated many of the demands for faster reform voiced earlier this year by China 's elder statesman , Deng Xiaoping . |